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It’s Time To Scrap News Media, Replace It All With AI – HotAir

April 28, 2025
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I will be the first person to admit that artificial intelligence terrifies me. It can be wildly funny if used in the right way, but the ability to pass stuff made up out of whole cloth by someone typing up a query in a search box makes me worry about whether we can believe anything is true in the future. And yet, I think I’ve reached the point where I’d trust news and political reportage coming through an AI algorithm rather than bother with resistance media any longer. 

You no longer can take one story offered by what used to be called mainstream media at face value, unless you happen to be an idiot. It’s not just a couple of examples here and there where biases and outright falsehoods are passed off as news or opinion in order to further an anti-Trump narrative. When it comes to reporting about the President’s second term, the false reporting is so off the charts that one needs to assume every story is false unless it’s proven correct later. 

Just in the past week, here’s the garbage we were treated to leading up to Saturday night’s Nerd Prom, aka the White House Correspondents Dinner. 

Politico, seemingly interested in creating a rift between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Special Envoy to the President, Steve Witkoff, ran a story citing anonymous senior sources that Witkoff was negotiating with Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin and offering to lift sanctions on energy and their Nord Stream pipeline. It was met with denials by both Rubio and Witkoff, who were on different continents at the time. 





Both principals about which the story was fabricated in Politico didn’t just deny it, they did so vehemently and with dispath. Not a scintilla of it is based on fact. 

United Press International had at least one photographer stationed in the White House press corps, and snapped a stunning photo. Here’s how UPI released it as a news blurb:

Of course, it is not unusual to see Dr. Gorka at the White House, being that he works there and all. He left his radio show during the Trump transition period as he was tapped by Donald Trump to be his deputy National Security Advisor. You know how I know this? The radio program of which I produce, The Hugh Hewitt Show, which airs on the same Salem Radio Network as Gorka’s old show, took over that time slot when he left to go back into government. UPI is either very, very lazy, or intentionally obtuse. Take your pick. Neither one is a good look. 

After the resignation and subsequent arrest of former New Mexico Democratic Judge Joel Cano, even resistance media had a hard time defending his actions. Not only did he house three illegal aliens that were all members of Tren de Aragua, he took a hammer to their phones to keep them from being entered into evidence. It’s as clear-cut a case of obstruction and violation of judicial ethics as you’re going to find…until you look the next couple of days into Wisconsin at soon-to-be former Judge Hannah Dugan. For Ms. Dugan, media seems to think this is the fascism they’ve been warning about.





You get the point. Know what’s missing in all of this fascist talk? The Department of Justice presented evidence of obstructing justice by Judge Dugan to another judge, and that judge found the evidence compelling enough to sign an arrest warrant. It wasn’t Trump’s jack-booted FBI disappearing her in the middle of the night. They executed an arrest warrant at her place of business, a place they knew she’d be. She will be prosecuted for her alleged crimes. If she is found guilty by a jury of her peers, she’ll be getting a peek at the Graybar hotel she was trying to keep violent gangbangers here illegally from having to see up close and personal. And that’s the way the system is supposed to work. What do we get from media, however? “Escalatory measures” is being thrown around. Sure seems like local judges trying to prevent federal law enforcement from enforcing U.S. law is what’s actually escalatory. 

Then there’s this headline over the weekend from the New York Times. 





Tugs at the heartstrings, doesn’t it? Wouldn’t you think a salient fact while trying to appeal to your sense of humanity might be that for 15 of those previous 21 years of his residency in the United States, Nascimento Blair was incarcerated for kidnapping? And instead of being deported to Jamaica as a court ordered in 2008, the Biden administration released him on the streets of New York City like a Batman villain? 

Or a story that will be in the news a lot this week. If all you read is resistance media, besides drool constantly running out of the corner of your mouth, you might be outraged at headlines like this out of Politico:

No, as David Strom writes, the U.S. didn’t deport a 2-year-old. They provided a free flight in order to accompany the child’s mother, who was deported according to a court order. Context matters, unless you’re the media and you hate Trump more than Hook hates Peter Pan. It turns out two other children were provided one-way tickets out with their deported parent, being the parent has custody of the children and is undergoing a court-ordered deportation enforcement. You could look at it as the Trump administration going out of its way to keep families together. On Meet the Press Sunday, Kristen Welker tried to keep the fake narrative of deporting kids with cancer alive, and Secretary Rubio countered it with facts and common sense. 





This one may be my personal favorite, for no other reason that I live in Southern California, about an hour’s drive away from where this mass arrest took place. 

Oh, the angst from the left. CBS, ABC, or at least their local affiliates, were outraged at this turn of events in the sanctuary state of California. Oh, did they forget to tell you about those who were picked up?

KTLA, Channel 5 here in the Southland, wrote this up in a 19-paragraph story. If you made it all the way to the 15th paragraph, you get this little nugget thrown in after how crushed the community is at the feds swooping in. 

Agents conducted an operation in Pomona targeting an illegal alien with an active arrest warrant. During the operation, nine additional illegal aliens were encountered and taken into custody. Several of those apprehended had prior charges, including child abuse, assault with a deadly weapon, immigration violations, and DUI.

Huh. Child abuse. Assault with a deadly weapon. I was under the impression that those were really bad things. You think KTLA might have spent 15 paragraphs talking to the victims of these people on the way out of the country to find out how crushed they were by the crime spree and how they’re coping now? Yeah, probably not.

Now we get to the main event from the weekend – Nerd Prom. Yes, the White House Correspondents Dinner took place, without the usual fanfare, comedy, or presidential roast. What instead happened was a bunch of people believing they are the modern-day incarnation of DC Comics’ Justice League. They’re just here fighting every day, providing a public service, or so says WHCA chair Eugene Daniels.





Alex Thompson, co-author of the Biden tell-all book with CNN’s Jake Tapper called Original Sin, tried to offer this mea culpa from the dinner. 

I like Alex, but the apology and call to do better isn’t enough. Not by a long shot. Every member of that press corps during the Biden regency was subjected to the same treatment this Los Angeles Times reporter was at a Joe Biden press conference, rare that those were. 

I’m with Stephen Miller. I have yet to see one person attending Nerd Prom address the fact that they all knew, and knew for years, that Joe Biden was not running the country. Media did not have access to the President of the United States unless their question was pre-approved and scripted out for them to read verbatim. Cashing out on a tell-all book now doesn’t absolve media’s Original Sin now. Confession of direct involvement in the cover-up is what’s needed before anyone can start to talk about trust and credibility again in the fourth estate. 

Zeke Miller of the Associated Press had this to say from the dinner Saturday night. 





I like Zeke personally a lot, too. But perhaps his commitment might be believed a little more if there was some admission for his previous partisan journalism. 

I leave you with this. The ‘Do Better’ Mantra lasted for about four minutes during Thompson’s speech. By Sunday morning, the shows were back in business churning out fake news and false narratives. On This Week with Martha Raddatz, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent pushed back at Martha’s defense of the hysteria over the stock market. 

The old expression is if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. The 2025 Resistance Media corollary for us ought to be if it seems like media has it in for Trump, they do. The odds are whatever scandal du jour is just Anti-Trump Inc. with television hours and column inches to fill, and it being a day ending in Y, throwing everything at this president they can think of, real or invented.







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